Hello Jessm90. I did like your post a lot! I'm tired of hearing that my canon powershot sx50 hs cannot be used to take pictures of milky way, and that, instead, I should use a DSLR. However, you did show the way, but not the entire way. I was able to use the firmware update (CDHK) and I got pictures with 25 seconds, iso 3200, but the f cannot be changed less than 3.5, but it should be around f2.0.

The problem is on photoshop. Could you show exactly what did you do there? What were exactly the adjustments? You'd wrote about "cleaned colors"?